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Contiene qualche importante omissis la singolare classifica redatta dagli inglesi del Times sulle 10 vergogne della storia del calcio.

Al primo posto svetta la "mano de dios" di Diego Armando Maradona proprio contro l'inghilterra nei mondiali in Messico del 1986.

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Ahead of Liverpool's game with Manchester United later today, I answered a few questions for Scott over at 'The Republik of Mancunia'.
Here is the text of the interview, which was published on RoM yesterday:
Scott the Red: What do you make of the beachball fiasco at the Stadium of Light? Click to continue reading...

It's Liverpool's turn to be out of the title race this week. Who's next? Arsenal? Tottenham (hah!)?

Let's hope that we won't see more players kicked off the park this week...

Darren Fletcher: Analysed
Elliott Tucker (of FutFanatico.com fame) takes to pen and paper (and actual game-watching) to explain just how good (or not) Darren Fletcher is.

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Sunday's Bolivian league match between Oriente Petrolero and Blooming turned intensely violent just before halftime when Sergio Jauregui of Blooming retaliated for an elbow he caught from Oriente's Leonardo Medina during the run of play an act which earned Medina a red card by executing a sickening kung fu kick that would even make Jean-Claude Van Damme jealous on Medina as he headed for the tunnel, leaving him unconscious.

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Giles Oakley has offered us some more insight to United of days gone by, looking at the best 'street-fighters' at United, in two parts.

I have often wondered if I am the only person who witnessed both of the two most spectacular match-day assaults ever perpetrated by Manchester United players on spectators, explosively sudden moments of violence which occured with a 35 year interval between them and which had markedly different impacts on the players concerned, and on the club.

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We dealt with the pitch way back in Law #1, but a single rule can't encompass everything related to something as wide-ranging (both physically and philosophically) as the field of play. So, the 9th Law of the Game deals with when a ball goes out of play.

This occurs when a ball goes out of the pitch for a throw-in, corner kick, or goal kick, or into the net.

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1. United States
Scraped and scrapped though with a 2-1 overtime win against Panama. Kyle Beckerman tied the game in the second half after a Panama goal just before the break. Kenny Cooper drew a foul -- absorbing a kung fu kick to the gut -- in the box and converted the spot kick for the win.
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Ouch! That had to hurt.
An inexplicable kung-fu kick from this unknown Chinese goalkeeper on the on-rushing striker, and he only gets a yellow card!
Some anger management classes needed for the goalkeeper and a rule book for the referee!
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Does injuring Ronaldo in FIFA ever get old?

I submit that it does not.

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Perhaps the best ever, Eric Cantona's deliberate delivery belies the fact he is making fun.

When the seagulls
follow a trawler
it is because they think
sardines
will be thrown into the sea

Thank you very much

- Eric Cantona

Addressing the press after his infamous Kung Fu kick into the Crystal Palace crowd, which was in response to being sent off and a fan's verbal threat, 25 January 1995.

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Recuerdo esa película de Al Pacino: "Perfume de Mujer". Supongo que cuando menos algunos de ustedes la vieron y la recuerdan. A mi mujer le encantó, lo que significa que me la he tenido que chutar como 15 veces con una sonrisa como si también fuera mi favorita.

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China has decided to remove TV coverage of their top league due to excessive pitch violence which turns football matches into impromptu martial arts competitions. So CCTV, China's gov't television, will be showing more games from top European competitions - the English FA is already salivating - in lieu of their domestic league. Click to continue reading...

We thank The Guardian, who thank Zlatan Ibrahimovic for reminding them, for reminding us of this goal, scored by one Hendrik Johannes Cruijff. A guy who once did some things way back when. Certainly one of the greatest goals ever, but is it the greatest flying kick football has ever seen? Many will say yes, [. Click to continue reading...

After Eric Cantona had been sent off at Crystal Palace and walked towards the tunnel, an opposing fan started shouting racist abuse at the Frenchman, which lead to that famous kung-fu kick. Cantona was quite literally attempting to kick racism out of football and it cost him 9 months of his career. Cantona has spoken out [. Click to continue reading...

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Bei diesem bösen Foul von Unsportlichkeit zu reden, scheint maßlos untertrieben, aber das Video mit dem Schlachtruf von Leonidas aus der Gewaltorgie 300 hat schon eine gewisse Komik.

Tomáš Jun, Stürmer beim FK Teplice, kann darüber vermutlich dennoch nicht lachen und dem Möchtegern-Kung-Fu Kämpfer Jiří Kladrubský, der offiziell als Abwehrspieler bei Sparta Prag geführt wird, sollte das Lachen hoffentlich vergehen, wenn er vom tschechischen Fußballverband für sein Foul bestraft wird.

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This is Jiří Kladrubský, a 22 yo left back for Sparta Praha, one time Czech NT participant and wannabe kung fu artist. His victim is Tomas Jun, forward for FK Teplice and formerly of Sparta. He also now features a pounding headache, maybe even a couple stitches, and a severe distaste for roundhouse kicks. Click to continue reading...

There's really no debating this one, Sebastian Mendez of San Lorenzo had zero intention of going for ball. It appears he'd just been watching too many Bruce Lee movies and wanted to perform a kung fu ode of sorts on Falcao (not that one, a new one) of River Plate. Falcao also happens to be [...] Click to continue reading...

Bruce: Lee?
Oh man, well done lad.
Lee was a Husky you know. The kung fu dude, not the Middlesbrough kid. Click to continue reading...

I said a hip hop the hippie the hippie
to the hip hip hop, and you dont stop
the rock it to the bang bang boogie say up jumped the boogie
to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat

Inspired by some wonderfully conjecturous news this past weekend that Birmingham forward Mikael Forssell has a triple platinum hit to his name in his homeland of Finland, and may even pursue a career in rap music once his playing days are over, here STT has rounded up some of our favourite footballers-turned-rappers.

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Wie dieser junge Ballkünstler mit einem aus dem Kung Fu entlehnten Fallrückzieher den Ball direkt nach dem Abstoß des Torhüters aus nahezu unmöglicher Position ins Tor befördert ist der reine Wahnsinn. Auch im Hallenfußball fallen also Traumtore.

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